Coin slide



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COIN SLIDE Original Filed June 7, 1937 I I g P6 25. 2g 1 Z3' 55 i 45 6,4 x 57 O n -so 25 I 44 53 53 .nm mm '27 O 0 5 i a l f o 9 15. 25 2? 554.? L WZdzerATmsofi I IN VENT OR. 24 l 28 HIS ATTORNEY.

Patented July 7, 1942 COIN SLIDE Walter A. Tratsch, Chicago, IH.

Original application June 7, 1937, Serial No. 146,836. Divided and thisapplication February 9, 1939, Serial No. 255,367

2 Claims.

This invention relates to improvements in coincontrolled devices and hasas its principal object the provision of an auxiliary coin display andtesting attachment for use with coin slides, this application being adivision of my pending application, Serial No. 146,836 and bearin PatentNo. 2,233,653.

Viewed from another aspect, the invention provides an improved device inthe nature of an attachment adapted for cooperation with thereciprocable slide type of coin testing device and which attachment isarranged to display coins, deposited in the coin slide, in serialalignment where they may be examined by the proprietor of the machine,the attachment being further provided with testing means effective toreject certain coin elements which may have escaped the testingmechanism of the coin slide and which may have escaped observation ofthe proprietor while on display in the chute.

Other objects and advantages of the invention reside in certain detailsof construction, as well as the functional arrangement of the variousparts of the illustrative embodiment described hereinafter inconjunction with the annexed .1

drawing, in which:

Fig. l is a top plan view of a coin slide employing the novel displaychute;

Fig. 2 is a bottom plan View of the device of Fi 1;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary vertical section through the coin-feedingmechanism of the display chute, as seen in the direction of line 33 ofFig. 1;

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary perspective of the feeding or intake end of thedisplay chute; while Fig. 5 is a fragmentary vertical section throughthe coin slide and display chute at the feeding end of the latter, asviewed along line 5-5 of Fig. 2.

In general the novel coin slide combination includes, as viewed in Fig.1, a main frame in the form of a horizontally extended casting having avertically extending mounting plate or Wall I2 dividing the frame into afront or depositing section I3 and a rear section I 4 and in whichmounting plate is slidably mounted a main coin slide I5 having a coinaperture I6 and a viewing apertur I'I spaced therefrom, the former beingsituated close to the front or left-hand extremity of the slide andbeing normally disposed in registration with a coin deposit opening I8in the front section I3 of the main frame. Formed in the bottom Wall ofthe front section I3 is an aperture I6 serving as an outlet aperture forthe discharge of any coin or token which might be deposited through theaperture I8 when the coin slide I5 is moved to its full stroke positionwhereby upon retraction of the slide I5 this coin or token will beejected through the opening I6. Operating mechanism including a push baror actuating slide I9 is provided to reciprocate the slid I5 so as tomove a coin, deposited through the deposit opening I8 into the slidepocket I6, beneath the mounting plate I2 and past certainfraudpreventive dogs IO-TI toward a discharge opening 20 (Fig. 3) formedin the rear section I4 of the main frame and situated below the normalposition of the innermost or right hand coinviewing aperture I! in theslide I5.:' Secured to the main frame so as to extend therefrom in alateral, direction is an additional testing and coin handlingmeans inthe form of a discharge chute 22 provided with mechanism, operable byactuation of the slide I5, for moving coins in step by step fashiontoward the discharge end of the chute.

As viewed in Figs. 2 and 3, the push .bar I9 includes a pair of spacedpush rods 23 and 23 joined at one end by the push bar I9 and at theiropposite or inner end by a cross bar 24 suitably secured to the innerends of the rods. The spaced rods 23 and 23 are slidable in the lowerportion I2 of the vertical mounting plate or wall I2 and also instaggered lugs 25 depending from the inner body of the frame. A coilspring 26, anchored at one end 21 to the frame and attached at itsopposite end 28 to the cross bar 24, normall urges the push heractuating member I9 into its normal position, as viewed in Figs. 1 and2.

t its rearward end, the main coin slide I5 is rigidly connected to thepush rod structure I9 by means of an angled extension 29 of the crossbar 24 which is secured to the slide by the pin means 3U.- I

Slidably mounted below the rear extension I4 of the main frame is areciprocable auxiliary slide 39 (Figs. 3, 4, 5) having a coin dischargeopening 39 through which a coin moving into the discharge opening 20 maydescend onto the floor of a discharge chute 42 later to be described indetail.

The auxiliary slide 39 has a depending lug 43 to which is attached oneend of a spring 44 anchored on an ear 45 attached to the discharge chute42 (Figs. 2 and 3) whereby the auxiliary slide is normally urged towardthe left and into a normal position as seen in Fig. 3 wherein theopening 39 thereof is in register with the sight opening IT in slide I5.7

However, when the coin slide I5 is moved into its full stroke position,the auxiliary slide is moved therewith so that a portion 39 blocks thedischarge opening in the frame and serves to hold a coin 38 thereinuntil the main coin slide is returned to normal position. This isaccomplished by means of a pin 45 which projects upwardly from the rearof the auxiliary slide 39 in to the rearward extension 4! of thelongitudinal slot 4! in the main slide [5, there being a shoulderformation 4'! (Fig. 1) at one side of this slot or channel which bearsagainst the pin 45 when the slide I5 is moved inwardly a predetermineddistance, so that thereafter the main slide and the auxiliary slide movetogether for the remainder of the stroke.

Slidably mounted on the floor of the discharge chute casting 42 (Fig. 4)is a coin-feeding cam pawl 43 pivotally connected as at 49 (see alsoFig. 3) to the auxiliary slide 39 for movement with the latter. Thisfeeding pawl 48 has an irregular cam slot 55 formed therein and in whichis received an upstanding pin 5| on the floor of the chute 42 and whichpin is effective, when the pawl is moved back and forth with theauxiliary slide 39, to pivot the pawl back and forth about the pivotalpoint 49 so as to cause the nose portion 52 of the pawl to sweep backand forth from the dotted line to the full line position illustrated inFig. 4 for the purpose of sweeping or pushing a coin 38 lying on thefloor of the chute 42, onto which it has been previously discharged fromthe discharge opening in the main frame, toward and past a plurality ofpresser fingers in the form of springs 53 attached to the floor of thedischarge chute 42 and protruding into the chute through bottom wallopenings 54.

The chute 42 generally indicated at 22 in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 includes themain frame, above referred to, which is adapted to be removably attachedto the bottom of the main guide frame by screws or other suitable means55. This bottom member of the discharge chute is preferably formed bydie casting and has an elongated coin channel 56 formed therein whichcommunicates with an enlarged head portion in which the presser fingers53 are situated. At the opposite end 5? of the discharge chute, the coinchannel 56 is open so that coins may pass from the latter into anydesired receptacle (not shown). Intermediate the end 5? and the headportion of the chute is an elongated drop-out opening 58 through whichcoins of less than a predetermined diameter are intended to pass forrejection.

Referrin to Figs. 1 and 2, it will be seen that there is provided aU-shaped presser member 59 having its opposite side arms 65 seated inslots formed in the side wall portion of the discharge chute 22, theends 6! of these arm portions being bent back toward one another toprevent the disengagement of the presser from the slots. Between theinner surface of the presser 59 and the opposite wall portion of thechute body is a spring 62 which normally tends to project the main bodyof the presser into the channel portion 55 of the discharge chute and.slightly beyond the edge of the drop-out opening 58; thus proper coinsor tokens will be carried over the drop-out opening 58 by the suspensionof the coin in yieldable pressing engagement with the presser bar 59 andthe opposite wall of the chute passage, while improper coins or token ofless than a determined diameter will drop directly through the opening58.

It will be apparent that a plurality of coins 38 will collect in thechute 22 between the discharge end 51 and the head portion thereof andthat as each coin 38 drops onto the floor of the discharge chute thepawl nose 52 will move the coin into the chute proper, each subsequentlydeposited coin engaging the one previously deposited and serving to movethe latter along in step by step fashion. There is further provided acover plate 63 for the discharge chute 22 which is attached to thelatter by means of screws 54. This plate has an elongated openin throughwhich the coins distributed in the discharge chute may be viewed.

Operation In operation, a patron deposits a coin in the opening [8 ofthe frame and into the coin aperture I6 in the main slide l 5, theoperating member I9 at this time being in the normal position shown inFig. 1, due to the action of the spring 25. With the coin thus depositedin the slide, the patron pushes the member l9 inwardly and causes theslide l5 to move correspondingly so that the deposited coin is carriedbeneath the several testing devices IQ-Tl, etc., and if the coin is anacceptable one, the slide l5 may be moved its full inward stroke todeposit the coin in the discharge opening 20 to rest on the now advancedportion 39 of the auxiliary slide 39.

Since the main coin slide I5 is at the limit of its inward movement atthis time, the auxiliary slide 39 will likewise be at the limit of itsinward movement, as seen in part in Fig. 4, so that the recentlydeposited coin will be prevented from dropping onto the floor of thechute 42 of the discharge chute 22 until the main slide, andconsequently the auxiliary slide, starts back toward normal position, atwhich time the feeding pawl 48 will be cammed, by action of the pin 5|in the slotted portions 50 of the pawl, into the dotted line positionshown in Fig. 4 substantially prior to the time the auxiliary slidereleases the coin in the discharge opening 20, the coin 38 thereafterdropping onto the floor of the chute 42 in front of the nose of the pawlin a position to be moved by the latter upon subsequent operation of themain coin slide.

Thus, it will appear that the coin last deposited will remain in theposition of the coin 38 in Fig. 4 beneath the discharge opening 25through which it may be viewed by the proprietor in accordance with theusual arrangement of this type of device, and those coins preceding thelast coin will have been moved by action of the pawl fully into thedischarge chute 22 where they may be viewed through the elongateddisplay opening 65 in the cover plate 63. As coins are subsequentlydeposited, the previously deposited coins in the discharge chute will bemoved along step by step past the testing means 58- 59 toward thedischarge end 5'! and into a receptacle (not shown) Having thusillustrated my invention by describing in detail a preferred embodimentand arrangement of parts in realizing the several objects heretoforerecited, it is to be understood that all equivalent constructions,modifications, and variations of the foregoing particularly describedstructure are intended to be embraced by the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire toprotect by Letters Patent is:

l. A device of the class described, comprising a frame including adischarge coin chute, a main coin slide supported for reciprocation onthe frame and having a coin aperture adapted to receive a coin andtransmit the same for deposit into said chute, a discharge openingformed in said frame and adapted to receive coins from said coinaperture when the main slide is moved to full stroke position, anauxiliary coin slide supported for reciprocation on said frame andhaving a coin receiving aperture normally disposed to permit passage ofcoins from said discharge opening to a point there-below, said auxiliarycoin slide having a portion adapted to block passage of a coin from saiddischarge opening when the auxiliary slide is moved toward full strokeposition, means operatively connecting the auxiliary coin slde with themain coin slide for reciprocation therewith at a predetermined time tomove said coin blocking portion into blocking position as aforesaid,means for feeding coins to said discharge chute, said means comprising abottom for said discharge opening in sai frame and communicating withsaid discharge chute, a coin sweep disposed on said bottom to receivecoins passing through said coin receiving aperture, means pivotallyconnecting said coin sweep to said auxiliary coin slide for movementtherewith, cam means on said coin sweep and means on said frameengageable by said cam means whereby when said auxiliary coin slide isreciprocated in response to the movement of the main coin slide said camsweep will operate to move a previously deposited coin toward saiddischarge chute.

2. A device of the class described comprising a frame including adischarge coin chute for viewing coins already deposited, a main coinslide supported for reciprocation on the frame and havinga coin apertureadapted to normally receive a coin and to transmit the same to apredetermined point within said frame, a discharge opening formed atsaid predetermined point on said frame and adapted to receive coins fromsaid coin aperture, a sight opening formed in said main coin slidethrough which coins may be viewed in said discharge opening, anauxiliary coin slide supported for reciprocation on said frame andhaving a coin passage aperture normally disposed to permit coins to passfrom said discharge opening to a point therebeneath, said auxiliary coinslide having a coin blocking portion adapted to support a coin in saiddischarge opening when the latter receives a coin from said coinaperture as aforesaid, means operatively connecting the auxiliary coinslide with the main coin slide at a time prior to the arrival of saidcoin aperture at said predetermined point, means for feeding coins fromsaid discharge opening to said discharge chute, said means comprising ashelf forming the bottom of said discharge opening and communicating thelatter with said discharge chute, a coin moving means arranged forswinging movement adjacent said shelf and having an end portion adaptedto swin beneath said discharge opening, a cam-way formed in said coinmoving means, means on said frame disposed in said cam-way and meanspivotally connecting said coin moving means to said auxiliary coin slidefor movement therewith whereby when said main coin slide is reciprocatedsaid coin moving means will be cammed to swing across said dischargechute.

WALTER A. TRATSCH.

